Review of Happy Death Day 2U (2019) by Daniel_Endure — 14 Feb 2019

If you're wondering how the writers of Happy Death Day 2U made a sequel work, the answer is simple... They didn't. Instead of focusing on a new set of characters and possibly an even more intriguing death-defying situation that includes the Groundhog Day spin, they instead take the original cast and continually grasp at straws for each minute that passes over-explaining the story in an attempt to justify the film's existence, while at the same time doing whatever it takes to, as it seems throughout, fill-up the movie's runtime to an acceptable length.

This second entry once again sees the protagonist wake up on the dreaded day she's supposed to die, but this time she's stuck in a parallel universe due to a science experiment gone wrong. What unfolds from this is a story that's as lame as it sounds and it never even gives the viewer a reason to care at all who exactly "the killer" is because, after all, it's essentially a dream world she's stuck in.

This time around, there's even more emphasis on getting things back to normal than discovering who's behind the mask. None of it makes sense. Every joke falls flat. The scares are pathetic and repetitive.

The ending is sudden and off-putting. It's altogether more overrated garbage from Blumhouse Productions, their signature bad acting and cheap budget included.